I’m less sure than Carl that the revelation of seemingly false claims of Native American heritage by both Warren and her employer and Warren’s plagiarizing of “traditional” Cherokee recipes from the New York Times are fatal to her candidacy. The Warren phony Native . . . . Continue Reading »
Kate’s wonderful maiden post was broad and deep and offered no easy answers. So I’ll take a shallow and narrowly political look at one aspect of her post. Kate writes of the New York Times, “the main worry of people quoted in the article. Older America will not accept . . . . Continue Reading »
The Obama slideshow on the life of Julia gives a sense of how social democracy can combine with a kind of atomized individualism. The real Julia would face a less generous government of course (Julia would be less influential member of the coalition until she got to be a quite old Julia), but one . . . . Continue Reading »
Things like, 1. I would prefer that a Greek default not produce an international banking crisis or even an international economic slowdown that hurts the US economy. But it is possible (I guess.) 2. I would prefer that Iran peacefully gives up its nuclear program so that Israel . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Knippenberg brought this Mike Gerson column to my attention. Gerson argues that conservatives are going to have accommodate to the fact that younger voters are less religious and less culturally conservative than younger age cohorts. Here are some only somewhat on point responses . . . . Continue Reading »
I agree with Peter and Sean Trende that we shouldn’t worry too much about the state polls in North Carolina right now. If Obama wins North Carolina, it will be because he clearly won the national popular vote and North Carolina’s electoral votes will not have proved . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m still thinking over this post from David Frum. Frum argues that Republicans are unlikely to make large gains among Latino-Americans by putting Marco Rubio on the ticket and would be better off trying to win over Asian-Americans by nominating the Indian-American Jindal for Vice . . . . Continue Reading »
David Frum thinks that Bobby Jindal would be a better vice presidential candidate than Marco Rubio. So do I, but I can’t endorse Frum’s reasoning. Frum writes that Republicans are better off going after Asian-American voters with Jindal as VP than going after Latino voters . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle (Oxford Aristotle Studies) , p. 173, Andres Rosler questions whether gratitude for the benefits of socialization are enough to obligate someone to obey the regime in which he was socialized. Is gratitude sufficient basis for political . . . . Continue Reading »
At the beginning of his 2011 The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) , a sequel to Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) , Girgio Agamben raises the question that, he thinks, students of . . . . Continue Reading »
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